percontative
adjective1
- That is, expressed in, or having the character of the grammatical mood (mode) of rhetorical questioning; percontatorial.
- ‘Perfect Dicibles are of various sorts: Interrogative; Percontative; Adjurative; Optative; Imprecative; Execrative; Substitutive; Compellative; Hypothetical; and, lastly, Dubious.’ — 1849